Peter Roberts
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January 31, 2023 at 1:21 am in reply to: Jelly Fungus on wood – (was ID help desperately needed) #45277
Your fungus has soaked up a lot of water but could be Tremella steidleri, which isn’t common but does like oak. I’ve seen it on oak in Devon. It parasitizes Stereum species which should be visible on the same bit of wood. Exidia candida (var. cartilaginea) is also similar, but prefers birch. I’ve seen it in Scandinavia, but as far as I’m aware it’s not known from the UK. Need a microscope for a definitive answer, I’m afraid. Postia looks right…somewhere around Postia lactea, perhaps. Postia species are quite soft. Trametes species are tough and leathery. I’m sure Mike is right with C. argillacea. Neolecta irregularis is a wonderful name to come up with, however, but is American (as presumably is Google Lens). Neolecta vitellina is European, but rare and in native spruce forests (so not in UK). I suspect it’s a species of Melanoleuca – probably Melanoleuca grammopodia. They are quite large and tend to grow in troops or rings. I am not good at identifying polypores in the field – let alone from a photo. But I would suggest Heterobasidion annosum, though fruitbodies would be leathery hard, not so soft and sappy as those of Phaeolus schweinitzii. I assume you’re hoping for Geastrum elegans. Looks right, though it is not a species I’m familiar with. You could contact Brian Douglas at Kew (he’s on Facebook) since he may well be interested. Your first photo shows a viscid-looking cap. Hygrocybe citrinovirens has a dry, silky cap – almost silky-fibrillose – so I would opt for H. chlorophana on this basis. Hygrocybe citrinovirens is also an early-season waxcap (often with H. intermedia), though the drought has muddled things up this year. Not a mushroom (they have pink to chocolate gills and aren’t blue), but probably a species of Cortinarius, judging by the rusty-coloured gills. The slimy cap suggests the subgenus Myxacium. Somewhere near Cortinarius salor, perhaps…but it’s not exactly an easy group to identify. Hi Mike – I’m glad the pointer was helpful. Should be Pterulicium gracile nowadays, by the way. Worth checking damp attached dead stems of pendulous sedge for P. caricis-pendulae which I think is probably quite common, but easily overlooked. Well-spotted. Typhula fruit bodies are typically club-shaped with a distinct stipe. This looks more like Pterula gracilis. Your fungus is probably one of the bluish/turquoise Stropharia species. Stropharia pseudocyanea has a strong smell of pepper, the other two UK species don’t. The colours tend to fade pretty quickly. Well done. New genus. The combination of sinuate lamellae, a ring, and distinctly warted brownish spores does not add up to much. Cortinarius caperatus might be a possibility, though it hardly looks typical. Hebeloma radicosum is another, though again it hardly looks typical… Any cystidia? Where was this from? The yellow woolly cap and latex turning violet = Lactarius repraesentaneus. It’s a northern species, pretty much confined to Scotland in the UK. The default is Leccinum scabrum – but you need to cut one in half and observe the colour changes in the context to identify most species in this genus. This looks like a young fungus fruitbody in the “parasol” group. The very marginate bulb at the base of the stem suggests Chlorophyllum brunneum, which seems to have a preference for gardens, but it’s a bit too immature to be sure. -
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